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Academic Genealogy

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• My advisor: Daniel Kudenko
  (Ph.D. Computer Science, Rutgers University, 1998: "Feature Generation for Sequence Categorization")
• Kudenko's advisor: Haym Hirsh
  (Ph.D. Computer Science, Stanford University, 1989: "Incremental Version Space Merging: A General Framework for Concept Learning")
• Hirsh's advisor: Bruce Buchanan
  (b. July 7, 1940, St. Louis)
  (Ph.D. Philosophy, Michigan State University, 1966: "Logics of Scientific Discovery")
• Buchanan's advisor: Gerald Massey
  (b. Feb 11, 1934, Wauseon, Ohio)
  (Ph.D. Philosophy, Princeton University, 1964: "The Philosophy of Space ")
• Massey's advisor: Carl Gustav Hempel
  (b. Jan. 8, 1905, Oranienburg, Germany; d. 1997, Princeton, NJ)
  (Philosophy, Berlin, 1934: "Beitrage zur logischen analyse des wahrscheinlichkeitsbegriffs")
  (Hempel worked with Reichenbach until Reichenbach was forced to leave Germany in 1933; his final year at Erlangen was spent under the supervision of Wolfgang Kohler and Nicolai Hartmann.)
• Hempel's advisor: Hans Reichenbach
  (b. Sept. 26, 1891, Hamburg, Germany; d. April 9, 1953, Los Angeles, CA)
  (Philosophy, Erlangen, 1915: "Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit fur die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit")
• Reichenbach's two advisors:
  
  • Paul Hensel
    (Dr. phil., Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, 1885: "Uber die Beziehung des reinen Ich bei Fichte zur Einheit der Apperception bei Kant")
    Please email me if you know anything about him
    
  • Max Noether
    (b. September 24, 1844, Mannheim, Baden, Germany; d. December 13, 1921, Erlangen, Germany)
    (Dr. phil. Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, 1868)
    Based on information Haym Hirsh received from Hans Reichenbach's widow, Haym Hirsh had previously listed the second advisor as Emmy Noether. He has recently learned that this did not match up with Reichenbach's dissertation's signature page, which has Max Noether's signature.
• Noether's two advisors:
  
  • Ludwig Otto Hesse
    (b. April 22, 1811, Kvnigsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia); d. August 4, 1874, Munich, Germany)
    (Dr. phil. Universitat Kvnigsberg 1840: "De octo punctis intersectionis trium superficium secundi ordinis")
  • Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
    (b. March 12, 1824, Kvnigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia); d. October 17, 1887, Berlin, Germany)
    (Dr. phil. Universitat Konigsberg 1847: "De criteriis quibus cognoscatur an aequatio quinti gradus irreductibilis algebraice resolvi posset / De parallaxi stellae Argelandriae")
    Kirchhoff's advisor was also Otto Hesse
• Hesse's advisor: Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
  (b. December 10, 1804, Potsdam, Prussia; d. February 18, 1851, Berlin, Germany)
  (Ph.D. Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, 1825: "Disquisitiones Analyticae de Fractionibus Simplicibus")
• Jacobi's advisor: Enno Heeren Dirksen
  (Ph.D. Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, 1820: "Historiae progressuum instrumentorum mensurae angulorum accuratiori interserventium inde a Tob. Meyeri temporibus ad umbratione non de artificio multiplicationis")
  
• His two advisors:
  
  • Friedrich Anton Justus Thibaut
    (b. January 4, 1772, Hameln, Hanover; d. March 28, 1840, Heidelberg)
    (Dr. phil. Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, 1796: "De genuina iuris personarum et rerum indole, veroque huius divisionis pretio")
    (Advisor unknown)
  • Johann Tobias Meyer d.J.
    (b. February 17, 1723, Marbach, Wurttemberg, Germany; d. February 20, 1762, Gottingen, Germany)
    (Ph.D. Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, 1773: "Tetragonometriae specimen I")
• Meyer's advisor: Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner
  (b. Sept 27, 1719, Leipzig, Germany; d. June 20, 1800, in Gottingen, Germany)
  (Ph.D. Universitat Leipzig, 1739: "Theoria radicum in aequationibus")
• Kaestner's advisor: Christian A. Hausen
  (b. 1693, d. 1743)
  (Dr. phil. Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg 1713: "De corpore scissuris figurisque non cruetando ductu")
• Hausen's advisor: Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen
  (Ph.D. Universitat Leipzig, 1685: "Disputationem Moralem De Divortiis Secundum Jus Naturae")
• Wichmannshausen's advisor: Otto Mencken
  (Ph.D. Universitat Leipzig, 1668: "Thomae Hobbesii Epicureismum historice delineatum sistit")

This tree was created by Haym Hirsh and its original version can be found here.

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